"Last week, a French warship operating in a multinational mission in the Gulf of Oman reported seizures of drugs with an estimated street value of $108 million."
Drugs worth $108m seized by French warship in Indian Ocean
Drugs, including heroin and methamphetamine valued at $108m, were seized in the Indian Ocean by a French warship operating with CTF 150.
"Earlier in the month, Indian naval operations led to the seizure of a staggering 2,500 kilograms of methamphetamine and heroin."
"Tons of narcotics stamped with #Afghan#cartel trademarks—Pegasus, the winged horse; the rampant eagle; the scorpion—have been showing up in European ports like #Felixstowe, #Antwerp and #Rotterdam, ingeniously packed into legitimate container shipments."
UNODC | Analysis of Opiate Stamps Seized in the Indian Ocean
"This research project aims to determine if exposure to terrorist propaganda may be a factor in causing trauma for researchers or their development of mood disorders."
Alexander Alexidze, a 48-year-old Georgian national wanted by several authorities in Canada and the US, was living in Saskatoon under “one of many” assumed identities.
"Alexidze is charged with procurement of false identity documents, possession of credit cards obtained by the commission of an offence, possession of the proceeds of crime over $5,000..."
..."possession of citizenship documents for a fraudulent purpose, #fraud over $5,000 and the use of forged documents."
Bridgend: Former police office pleads guilty to over 100 child sexual offences
Lewis Edwards, 23, was charged with a total of 106 offences, which included inciting children to make indecent images #online and to engage in sexual activity.
"South Wales Police's assistant chief constable said the offences would "damage the public's trust and confidence in policing." - "Edwards, from Bridgend, was immediately suspended from duty and resigned following his arrest."
"The investigation by the South Wales Police online investigations team began when officers received intelligence about suspicious online activity, which involved the downloading of indecent images of children from the dark web."
Nearly half a million members of a notorious cybercrime forum have had their details publicly exposed after a key database was published on another hacking site.
"#Cybersecurity researchers at VX-Underground confirmed the news that over 478,000 users of RaidForums had their data leaked on up-and-coming forum Exposed."
"A screenshot shared by Emsisoft threat analyst, Brett Callow, shows the leak was posted by an Exposed admin known as "Impotent."
Iran-linked hackers Agrius deploying new ransomware against Israeli orgs
An Iran-linked advanced persistent threat #APT group is using new #ransomware while targeting a familiar adversary in the Middle East, researchers have found.
"Check Point’s Incident Response Team investigated the deployment of the ransomware against #Israeli organizations and claimed by a group dubbing itself Moneybird."
"Researchers found that it bore the hallmarks of Agrius, a #hacker group that has been around since 2020 and has attempted to disguise itself with aliases like BlackShadow."